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shockware

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From: Romania

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 6

[SOLVED]XMMS stops playing when KDE plays a system sound!

Well the subject says it all... if KDE reports an error or something... and plays a sound... XMMS stops playing... it's really annoying...
I use ALSA for the sound server and for XMMS output... never had these problems on other distros...

Last edited by shockware (2007-09-05 17:28:38)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,195

Re: [SOLVED]XMMS stops playing when KDE plays a system sound!

I assume you are using ARTS for kde sounds ?

Try setting the auto-suspend delay to 0 , Control center > sound and multimedia > sound system , general tab

If that doesn't help, disable the sound system.

In order to get kde to play system sounds without ARTS :
Control center > sound and multimedia > system notifications > player settings > use an external player

the play command from the sox package works very well.

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Try clean chroot manager by graysky

shockware

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From: Romania

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED]XMMS stops playing when KDE plays a system sound!

thank u... I managed to solve this problem by changing the System Notifier to play sound with mplayer...